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UNiTED` STATES PATENT Grin-CE.

Bv. J. LA MorHE,"oF NEWYORK, N. Y.

FOUNTAIN-PEN..

Specification fornixng-part of Letters Patent No.. 47,432. dated-Apr 25, 1865.`

I o all lwhom it may concern: i L

vBe it known that I, BERNARD .LA

I MoT'HE,of the eityand State of New York,

have invented, made, and applied to use a certain new and useful Improvement in Fountain-v i-ensg and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the said invention, reference being had to the annexed drawiugs, making part of this specification, whereinin a spring ink-conveyer that yields to the springing movement. of the pen in writingand prevents too. much ink iiowing into the pen, at the saine time thatV clogging and4 0bstrnction tp the ow of the ink .is prevented by the constant but slightjnovement of the spring conveyor.

` In tlie ilra\vings,a isa tube ot' rubber, metal, or other desired material. b isa plunger by which to draw, ink into the tube, said plunger having a packing at c and a. head, d, to-b e grasped in drawing;` in the ink, or said -fouiit ain may bc filled by the'suction of the mouth, or in an y other couvenieiit l-manner, and -an air-tight plug or stopper, e, Fig. 3 muy take the place of the plunger b. At the pen end of the tube a,Iintroduce aplug, ,that may be enter-l ed direetlyinto the end of the tube @orbe ap 'gliednt the end f a secondary tube, o, (see ig. 1,) which, in ifs turn; is introduced into the'tube a, leaving space for' the insertion of Vthe pen It between a and o, or said peu may' be held by a band, k,"ar'onnd the tube o, (see Figs. l and'3,) or it might be around thetube` a, so that the `pen is retained between the said-band k and the inside tube, a.. A

r is my spring conveyer, formed of thin sheet metal or other suitable material some` whatin the shape of a. trough near the pen It, whil the inner and of the s'pzing couveyer r is folded back to take against the opposite sists of a tube v `interior sideof the tube a." This springlcon` veye'r passes out through aV notch in the plug. i, and its end is rounded so asjto4 set against the inside of the'pen' h. t

It .will now be understood. that the inlk` passes down this trough-eonveyertrlto the pen, and tis-the writing progresses the ,lack ot'.ink in the trough allows a smullbubble 'ot air to pass up iuto tlie fountaiin'a and the -inkagaiu to-descend,I and the spring of the eonveyer rV keeps its end up againstthe inte'.- l

rior ot the pen, so that theink cannot drop,

'and it yields both at itsouter and inu'er end, the block being a fulerum on which it may'. t.

vibrate and keeptheink mixed up so Athat it will not clog in the pen or eonveyer.

' l provide a pencil-at the outer end ofthe' plunger, as seen in Figs l and'2.` This consaid lead, and` y is a slide passing Athrough nfs slot. in the side of the' tube, `and spread ont within said tube .'so that `the;lead-.maybe pushed out by means of said slide, s it may be abraded' in writin This fountain is nfiglned to anyy minette of pen, as the conveyer i may be' drawn fnrther outor employed.

The springconveyer mighthave' itslend that is within the fountain folded 'm the oppo-` site direction to that shownr;` i This improved penI term .gfLe Mothes time-saving pen. t t i What 1 claim, and desire tosecure by ,'Lcters Patent, ist 1,. The. spring nk-couvegvenformed `asm trough, passing `through an `opening nem?` the in the manner and for.thepurposes'spew.:-.`

- 2. .The.peneil e, formed inthe-V mannerset 'forth' and combinedwith tlieplungervof the fountain-pen, as speeiiied,

the size of theleademployt ed, the end of which formsA a `spring clasp ror.

pushed in, according tothe pep. t

In witness. whereof Ihave'heren-nti;set-myV signature this 11th day of February1865." p

. t B. .L LA M'rnn.i t Witnesses: t t

LEMUEL W. SERREIQL, Buren BRowNLEn. p 

